Will Rogers

Started: 2005-12-27 11:52:25

Submitted: 2005-12-27 12:16:22

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At this moment, Kiesa and I are sitting at the end of the
newly-renovated terminal at Will Rogers World Airport waiting for our
flight to Denver. (The in-terminal monitors show a cowboy figure
standing on a spinning globe twirling a lasso around the globe.)
This is a Frontier JetExpress flight, so it's operated
by Horizon on a CRJ-700. This time we actually managed to get seats next
to each other; somehow our tickets ended up on different reservations,
so on the flight out we had to ask the woman originally sitting in my
row to trade seats with Kiesa. For our return flight, we had the
opportunity to stay in Oklahoma City until tomorrow for US$400 each,
which seemed like a decent idea except we were ready to go home and
we're heading to work tomorrow. (It might have worked if we had gotten
on the first flight out in the morning, although that would involve
waking up entirely too early tomorrow morning. And we would have had to
repack our suitcases, which wouldn't have been pretty.)

While in Norman, we celebrated Christmas the way I remember (stockings
on Christmas morning, then breakfast, presents, and Christmas dinner).
We also managed to find six geocaches: two we walked to and four we
drove to. (Two of the drive-by caches could have been walk-by caches if
we had been ambitious.) I continued stalking Willy on Wikipedia. We
watched six episodes of Arrested Development and two episodes of
Futurama (I got volume 3; my mother was not sure it was really a
cartoon targeting adults). Kiesa is currently amusing herself watching
Run, Lola, Run, and a guy behind me is talking on his wireless
phone about his iPod.

After spending five days in Oklahoma, my plan is to go to work on
Wednesday and Thursday, then take Friday and Monday off; I'll end up
rolling two vacation days into 2006, which is just now allowed by
official corporate policy. (I had to fight to get my hands on a real
hardcopy of the policy.) Kiesa is taking Sunday and Monday off. I have
no real idea what we're going to do for New Year's; we'll probably end
up staying at home and doing little. My mission is to go snow-shoeing at
least once, and to find three more geocaches before the end of 2005,
which will put my total at 200.